# Cuts, lacerations at Indium Corporation
> OSHA SIR `2023021314` · 2/10/2023 · UTICA, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 hospitalization**
- **Body part:** Nose, except internal location of diseases or disorders
- **Nature of injury:** Cuts, lacerations
## Cause
- **Event:** Struck by swinging or slipping object, other than handheld, n.e.c.
- **Source:** Machinery, unspecified
## Employer
- **Name:** Indium Corporation
- **Location:** 1676 Lincoln Avenue, UTICA, NEW YORK, 13502
- **NAICS:** 331491
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was transferring the contents from a tank into the filter press when he was struck in the nose by a piece of the hydraulic pump handle or the swivel piece. The employee then fell to the floor. The employee was hospitalized for a nose laceration as well as head and neck pain.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*